README.md

Erlang/OTP

Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft
real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its
uses are in telecom, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and
instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for
concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing
middle-ware to develop these systems. It includes its own distributed
database, applications to interface towards other languages, debugging
and release handling tools.

ERTS and BEAM

BEAM is the name of the virtual machine where all Erlang code is executed.
Every compiled Erlang file has the suffix .beam. The virtual machine
is sometimes referred to as the emulator.

ERTS is the Erlang Runtime System where the BEAM, kernel and
standard libraries amongst others are included.

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Copyright and License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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